Catalan Modernist Narrative: From Naturalism to Symbolism
1. THE NARRATIVE MOERNISTA
Joan Maragall in 1901 had denounced the situation diglossic narrative poetry about the dangers in modernism and that this imbalance involved. There were difficulties in publishing and marketing of novel in Catalan, matters of aesthetics. The crisis of positivism and the realist novel was naturally discredit all genre novels, especially the novel real-complaint.
The solution to the crisis leaned toward modernist narrative tradition French symbolist and decadent, and to highlight an item that naturalism had neglected: emotion. The artist had to find the essence of emotion in the creative process and reach an intense inner life that lies behind appearances. Novel symbolic.
The most representative novels reproduce the social reality through the symbolist conception of the creative act, and of a content vitalist ideology: the artwork was the result of the clash between the subjectivity of the artist and outside world. The main theme, the struggle between self and nature, mankind and the world.
We must analyze the geographic framework of the social scene novels art nouveau.
Raymond Wells and Joseph Fields and Page, and the dramas of Victor Catalan.
2. VICTOR CATALAN
Catherine Albert, born in 1869-1966 Escala.
No house ever since 1904 and lived between the scale and Barcelona. He had influence on later generations of narrators and storytellers.
His best literature of the early years of its production.
Literary production
Victor Catalan writer of self-learning training. Scholars of literature to ascribe the naturalism and modernism in the first period, the authors of the narrative rural as Ramon Casellas, Joaquim Ruyra. Most of its production is an example of the essential features of modernist fiction:
· Unknowable and chaotic vision of the world.
· Decadent narrative: the relationship of the individual with the world around them can be resolved harmoniously if humans get confused with all-embracing nature.
Ruralista Narrative:
Extreme heavy fighting in which the person tries to defend their individuality to the destructive forces.
The artist attempts to · nature subjecting it to the superiority of spirit and art.
The top individual · opposes the crowd in an attitude of personal affirmation and rebellion.
Topics for outrageous · offend bourgeois and conservative morality.
Victor Catalan narrative can be classified into four stages:
Recortes 1-narratives of rural graduates Drama (1902), Ombriívoles (1904), Cairo Live (1907) and especially his creation Soliud (1905).
2-A film (3,000 feet) and a collection of stories.
3-Stories Marine (1928) and backlight (1930)
4-good life (1949) and Jubilee (1951).
Also poetry and theater, his great passion, not excelled on any of these two genres.
Solitude
– Management and edition.
Solitude was commissioned in 1902 in the journal Youth. Some chapters were published weekly. Did not start running until May 1904. The origin is in an existing story or sketched.
The novel was completed in April 1905 published in booklet form weekly.
– Item
Inner conflict and pain in one, fighting an oppressive social and physical environment in order to overcome the dissatisfaction of his own life and achieve personal fulfillment through the pursuit of love and freedom. The price to pay for his personal accomplishment, is the marginalization and loneliness.
The story of loneliness is the human, located between good and evil, between purity and holiness, the low passions and the devil. The mountain symbolizes the internal and external elements, in particular the tragic fate of the protagonist, so the novel describes a scene of mystical and supernatural proportions.
3. THEATER NOUVEAU
The drama came late on the other manifestations. Sample was representative Santiago Rusiñol. The art nouveau had a great attraction for theater, il’entenien as unconventional and open manifestation of total art.
It means a platform of expression and dissemination of ideas for young people, modest and marginal modernist intellectuals.
In the late nineteenth century, the theater changed the pattern of the theater of the Romanesque and Renaissance semirealista by new models coming from Northern Europe. The theatrical productions, was divided into two major trends: Drama · root naturalist · Symbolist Theater.
The authors also incorporated into two groups: · naturalists regenerationist · decadent-symbolist
Art Nouveau movement, shooting, and began to be accepted by the bourgeoisie. The authors were unable to adapt to new power and stopped writing for the stage. 1913, the theater falls into a situation modernist decadence, is’estrenaren few works.
Theater-regenerationist Naturalist
The theater was proposed regenerationist denounce social injustice and reveal the moral and political consciousness of citizens. Ibsen’s first foreign author, says that his production works of naturalist bias, but the last stage of his character had a symbolist. Ibsen was intended to extol the most radical moral autonomy of the individual as the only way to regenerate society.
Theme: marginalized individuals and bearers of truth faced liberating society ignorant and alienated.
Symbolist Theater
The other side is committed modernist theater aesthetics in favor of art for art, namely the symbolist theater.
Appeals of Masters, the first representative of this type of theater il’introductor of French models and especially the English.
One of the most outstanding figures of the modernist scene was:
Adrià Gual, multifaceted artist devoted to painting, costume il’escenografia, besides writing. Task theatrical pedagogy, in addition to representing the works, intended to lend stability to the training of actors and actresses, and all the trades necessary for the new theater they wanted to achieve. Alternative, as Santiago Rusiñol, naturalistic drama of ambition and a theater regenerationist much more elitist and symbolist.
Santiago Rusiñol
The contribution of Santiago Rusiñol modernist scene is a subsidiary of its work in revitalizing the cultural, painter, and even a novelist.
The Storybook Mr Stephen (1917), reworking of the novel of the same title in 1907.
The first works advocate a society that must remain outside the affairs materials and, consequently, the social demands, and are dedicated to the beauty of life as it is the only way worth the world. This beautician when preaching the artists are able to guide elected minority of the membership but does not reproduce the typical modernist clash between artist and society.